| Did anyone see the sidecar in action at the show? When I saw it it
was hooked up to an Amiga. One of the rumors that bothered me was
the problem discussed on the USENET about powering the Sidecar down
after the Amiga. Rumor had it this would cause serious problems.
The folks I asked, including Andy Bell of Tech Plus (CBM's Local Marketing
firm), said that this was NOT true. Nice to hear.
Genlock seems to do everything it's supposed to do. It's really
packaged nice and easy to install. The demo went fine and Andy
Bell set it up while we watched.
Did anyone see any other hardware that impressed/disgusted them.
I'm sure I probably missed a lot and for those who didn't go I'd
like to hear any comment's anyone might have.
Steve McAfee
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| I, too was there early in the morning. What a mob! I accidently
stumbled onto the Genlock demo, and it was pretty impressive. They
had DPaint running over a live image of the mob. I also found out
saturday nite that they were selling shrink-wrapped 1.2's!!
Oh well, at least I got a really sexy Amiga poster for the office.
I think next year, they could fill up the Centrum.
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| I too was not lucky enough to get 1.2 WB , but I talked with the
people selling it. 50 kits were delivered to the show ( they got
a special priority shipment ). The Kits sold out in 45 min. ( 10:15
- 11:00 ).
Some of the seminars were the best part of the show. Dpaint
II demo, Sidecar Demo, Genlock demo, Desk Top Publishing, and a
intro to AMIGA.
As for new hardware, I had a Demo and a long talk with Electric
Light. They make the Polaroid Pallet (sp?) for the AMIGA. The Pallet
is a system that prints images to film ( 35mm, prints, ect ).
There was a Zorro expansion box for sale with 2Meg memory boards.
The package also include software to make a RAM disk what doesn't
go way when reboot ( even after a crash ).
Yes, there was a sidecar there. They even had the cover off,
so you coud see inside. I saw it running a couple of programs, and
it acted just like a I*B PC .
There was a genlock on display,as well as a demo in one of the
seminars. It seemed to work well and is comming to a store near
you.
AND MANY MANY MANY PEOPLE !!!
Steve Peters
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| great show, big crowds. I loved the reaction from the Amiga dealers,
it really showed the pent-up demand for products. I squeezed into
the booth for the Memory Location to buy "Defender of the Crown",
bought it and the 1.2 WB at a 20% discount.
Saw the Sidecar try to boot MS-DOS, later saw it disconnected with
its cover off - has a single 5.25" floppy drive, no room for a hard
disk and 3 slots.
Genlock was more interesting, during Andy Bell's Advanced Amiga
seminar he mention one potential market for it - use your monitor
as a TV set, and still do useful work (anything painted with color
register 0 is transparent).
-dave
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